{"nrhp_refnum":"86000546","name":"West Main-North Chesnutt Streets Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly N. Chesnutt, Fayetteville, and Williams Sts. between W. Main and Margaret Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Clinton","county":"Sampson County","state":"NC","lat":34.99831703850006,"lon":-78.32772190977805,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-03-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in Clinton, Sampson County, North Carolina, made up chiefly of dwellings dating from the 1830s to the early 1930s, lying west and southwest of the central courthouse square. The district comprises two distinct neighborhoods along West Main, North Chesnutt and West Johnson Streets.","why_significant":"The district is the town's oldest residential area and was its first fashionable residential section, where early merchants and leaders built their homes. It contains the town's oldest house, several antebellum Greek Revival houses, the county's only academic Victorian residence, and a range of late 19th and early 20th century houses that illustrate the town's growth.","narrative":"Clinton's West Main-North Chesnutt-West Johnson Streets district holds the town's oldest residences, mostly built between the 1830s and the early 1930s on lots west and southwest of the courthouse square. Its core is the Richard Clinton Holmes House, built by 1826 with a Greek Revival addition in the mid 1830s, and a row of antebellum Greek Revival houses on North Chesnutt Street known as Yankee Row, built by newcomers from Connecticut. Alfred Johnson, a merchant who arrived in the early 1830s, is credited with introducing the Greek Revival style to Sampson County. The district is also noted for the Amma F. Johnson House of 1868, the county's only academic Victorian residence, and for St. Paul's Episcopal Church of 1902 and the L. C. Graves Presbyterian Church of 1908. Its later houses include Bungalow and Colonial Revival dwellings from the 1920s and 1930s.","period_of_significance":"ca 1829-1937","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal; Greek Revival; Victorian; Classical Revival; Gothic Revival; Colonial Revival; Bungalow","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"The structures are, with two exceptions, occupied and in good condition; the long vacant McGill-Johnson-Crumpler House and the Alfred Johnson House, which suffered fire and smoke damage in December 1980, have uncertain futures.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.602185-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/65/7184/47718465/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/86000546.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718465","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Main%E2%80%93North_Chesnutt_Streets_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22061131"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/sampson-county/west-main-north-chesnutt-streets-historic-district-86000546/"}